How to format your references using the Journal of the American Water Resources Association citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA). For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Blaxter, M., 2010. Genetics. Revealing the Dark Matter of the Genome. Science (New York, N.Y.) 330:1758–1759.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fernandes, V.M. and C. Desplan, 2015. Neurobiology: Inversion in the Worm. Nature 523:44–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gizon, L., T.L. Duvall, and J. Schou, 2003. Wave-like Properties of Solar Supergranulation. Nature 421:43–44.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Magarkar, A., V. Dhawan, P. Kallinteri, T. Viitala, M. Elmowafy, T. Róg, and A. Bunker, 2014. Cholesterol Level Affects Surface Charge of Lipid Membranes in Saline Solution. Scientific Reports 4:5005.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Hannam, J., 2017. What Everyone Needs to Know about Tax. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Brion, M., 2013. Lectures on the Structure of Algebraic Groups and Geometric Applications P. Samuel and V. Uma (Editors). Hindustan Book Agency, Gurgaon.

A chapter in an edited book

Ramtal, D. and A. Dobre, 2011. The Laws Governing Motion. A. Dobre (Editor). The Essential Guide to Physics for Flash Games, Animation, and Simulations. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp. 135–156.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of the American Water Resources Association.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2017. Could Cold Spot In The Sky Be A Bruise From A Collision With A Parallel Universe? IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/could-cold-spot-in-the-sky-be-a-bruise-from-a-collision-with-a-parallel-universe/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 1993. High Speed Ground Transportation: Funds Need to Be Focused Under Proposed Legislation. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Haxton, S.A., 2017. Student Risk Perception in the Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Kishkovsky, S., 2005. New Yorkers in Moscow Follow Stanislavsky’s Path. New York Times:B9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Blaxter, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Blaxter, 2010; Fernandes and Desplan, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Fernandes and Desplan, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Magarkar et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the American Water Resources Association
Abbreviation	J. Am. Water Resour. Assoc.
ISSN (print)	1093-474X
ISSN (online)	1752-1688
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Ecology Water Science and Technology